I'm constantly defending Japanese art and videogames to my friends. For instance, you know that scene in My Neighbor Totoro (1:56) where Mei and Satsuki are taking a bath with their Dad? Every time I watch that movie with someone who's never seen it before, I have to explain that "No, this movie does not have a pro-pedophilia agenda. There's nothing sexual going on here. Don't project your weirdness on to one of the most innocent, good natured movies ever made".
Well, I wouldn't be able to provide similar protection to this Mega Man art. I'm definitely a little creeped out by the way these Rolls (from Mega Man, Mega Man: Powered Up, Mega Man 8, Mega Man Legends, and Mega Man: Battle Network) are lying around and semi-cuddling together. If Princess Peach, Daisy, Toadette, that big boobed ghost from Paper Mario, and Birdo were depicted in artwork like this, Nintendo would never even acknowledge it, let alone sell it. Capcom, on the other hand, has put this art up for sale in Japan, on both a collectible puzzle and a coffee mug.
Then again, my gender (and my overexposure to yucky, sexualized videogame fan-art) may be skewing my perspective on this situation a bit. I just showed the art to my wife, who just immediately let out a "D'aaaaw" and the art reminds her of how fun her teenage slumber parties used to be.
So what do you think? Is this art pure, or pervy?
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10:30 PM on 01.20.2011 | 
but I'm not complaining cause girls cuddling on bed isn't my thing
The really weird part isn't that they're lying around semi-cuddling, it's that they're sort of all the same person......
And yeah, I know what you mean about Japanese art. Sometimes, I think Miyazaki and Hosoda are the only guys in Japan who can release animation where all the females have normal-sized boobs. It's ridiculous.
I wouldn't be caught dead drinking from the cup though.
I didn't know Holmes was married. Are you married to Felicia from Sundays with Sagat?
agreed with phoebus something is a little unnerving, but it's mainly cause it's the same character, it's not like they're making out or anything
this is really tame actually compared to anime standards
Art Style is obviously "D'aaaaaaaaaaawww"
Meteorscrap is confused.
Honestly, what you take from it is a large matter of inferring a subtext not all people are going to see. Those who know what rule 34 is can take something dirty away from this while understanding that the bathing scene in My Neighbour Totoro is innocent.
That said, it LOOKS potentially innocent. The art style helps with that impression.
Because he has tenticles.
THAT LOOKS LIKE DICKS
;D
You, yes, you. Or me. Or are they looking at a dude that gets a bunch of girls on a bed and takes pictures of them? There's a shorter word for that one. It's called "pornographer".
You can't un-see it now.
Fapping to a cup FILLED with burning hot liquids can only end horrifically.
Just because some pervert out there can get turned on by an innocent image like this, we don't need to turn it into that ourselves. Just remember that perverts are SICK and their desires and impulses shouldn't become our normal view of reality. That being said, it seems to be the trend to think "if a pervert can get turned on by this, it's perverted." That's just sad my friends.
someone gonna get van'd though
Yuck.